Jeremy Scahill: How US Foreign Policy Has Lurched Rightward

December 22, 2011

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When voters go to the booth next year, will foreign policy weigh heavily in their decisions? What options will they even have given the rightward shift in the US’s dealings with the rest of the world?? In this video produced by Francis Reynolds, Jeremy Scahill explains some of the very real dangers of our current policy trajectory. A President Gingrich or Romney would bring disaster to US’s relations with countries like Iran and China, Scahill argues. And what’s even more frightening? President Obama isn’t that much better.